The latest short science news items from C&EN. In order for the catalyst to be stereoselective, its ligand has to be able to distinguish between the different alkyl substituents. Fu’s hunch about how ...
A systematic and comprehensive semiempirical, Hartree-Fock (HF) ab initio, and B3LYP density functional theory (DFT) study was conducted on the relative thermodynamic properties of various linear and ...
Background: Alkyl ester quaternary ammonium compounds (ester quats) are used extensively in fabric rinse conditioners. It is important to document in the literature the outcome of historical studies ...
Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is a process in which a solid material, such as nanowire, particle or thin film, is deposited on a substrate by creating reactive species in the gaseous phase. These ...
BETHLEHEM, N.Y. (NEWS10)– In February, the Town of Bethlehem began testing the water from Vly Creek Reservoir and wells in the New Scotland Wellfield for any harmful chemicals. According to town ...
A team of researchers at California Institute of Technology has found a nickel catalyst that bonds alkyl nucleophile and alkyl electrophiles to make a single stereoisomer with two chiral centers. In ...
Number of skin reactions to 2% concentration at 2-day scoring* 0/183 0/183 0/183 0/183 HEQ = di-(hardened tallow fatty acid) ester of 2,3-dihydroxypropyl-trimethyl ammonium chloride; TEA-Quat = ...